Samba and NFS need some explanations.

[Marc M]

Ivan,

The reason 'they' don't make everything compatible is because 'they' include
a company like Microsoft that does everything it can to make things
difficult to do this.  However the SAMBA folks make it easy enough to
overcome all of that.

I agree with what is said, you can run a Samba server and it will basically
let your linux box suddenly appear in your 'Network Places' area of your XP
box.  You will then be able to go onto your windows box and set up a 'mapped
network drive'.  You can do this by going into Tools -->map network drive,
or you can right click on 'my computer' and if your samba is set up it will
see the shares from the linux machine.

Note that you are not (normally) sharing the whole linux box - just choose a
*part* of the filesystem, such as /home.   If you have a red hat or fedora
machine with the gui, you can probably set it up in there pretty easily.
Keep in mind that you also have to make the share be seen 'as' something.
This is basically saying that, in the linux filesystem, /home is now going
to be 'seen' as some other name, like testshare or something like that.  The
main samba configuration file is /etc/samba/smb.conf   - like I said you
might want to configure it through the desktop since one little mistake
might make it hard to troubleshoot until you get more familiar with it as
well as the windows part of it.

Linuxmigration.com has a pretty good introduction to Samba.  In my opinion,
Samba is all you really need for your situation.  Good luck

Marc







On 4/10/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Ivan Evstegneev wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the help!!! One more thing, I just was looking around for
> > some network related utilities... and I found LISa daemon!!! So now I'm
> > able to see the windows folders and access them from my Linux machine!!
> > but as I understood from your answer I still need to install the SAMBA
> > server on Linux so I will able to see my shared folders on windows based
> > computer.... it's so strange!!!! Don't they just build some "combo"
> > package that will apply to all sides?... so weird.... :)))
>
> I suppose you want to take your Chevrolet to the Ford dealership
> and buy parts, too.
>
> Mike
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